My eye was caught today by a BBC article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7473818.stm) which in part was blaming what they described as the "Facebook generation" for the recent loss of a sensitive document from a train, left by a careless MOD employee. The suggestion is that young people today are totally insensitive to the notion of secret or private information as they are in the habit of sharing and obtaining private information about pretty much everything from social networking sites. I have to say I find this a typically headline grabbing load of old nonsense. Just because people choose to share personal information on Bebo does not make for a society that is incapable of appreciating the importance of 'top secret' information, nor of being able to be responsible for keeping it that way! Someone made a mistake, end of story!
because shift happens...